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I use emacs in ubuntu and I use Monaco 10 as its default font. However, the font rendering seems a bit odd compared to my gnome terminal with the same font size: It's a bit smaller and not as clear as that in the terminal. I've tried to avoid simply this with size 11 but it's too large for me.

How can I make it the same as its look in the terminal ? Any help is appreciated :)

UPDATE: I should tell you the above one is GUI emacs running a shell, and the below is the gnome terminal. On the right are their correspond font settings.

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Both 100% capture with font size 10: (left: emacs, middle: terminal, right: gedit)

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One more (gvim's):

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I've test it with emacs -q, so there should be no other place affected my font setting.

And I've test this under:

  1. GNU Emacs 24.2.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.13) of 2012-12-13 on tales(stable);

  2. GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.13) of 2012-12-12 on tales

They are exactly the same. And here is my ./configure output, I don't know if it can help.

Also I've tried something like changing the .Xdefaults file, but it didn't make any sense.

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  • How are you setting the font in emacs? Could you post an image of it so we can compare and better understand the problem? Also 10 is really quite small, try setting emacs's font to ~14 or so.
    – terdon
    Dec 12, 2012 at 16:32
  • @terdon The only font setting in my init.el is (set-frame-font "Monaco-10"). 10 is suitable here. You can open the image in new tab then zoom in to 100% to see how exactly its size is.
    – Saddle Point
    Dec 12, 2012 at 16:35
  • As far as I can tell from the image, you are showing two terminals and no emacs.
    – terdon
    Dec 12, 2012 at 16:40
  • @terdon I sorry for I should tell you the above on is GUI emacs, and the below is the gnome terminal. On the right are their correspond font settings.
    – Saddle Point
    Dec 12, 2012 at 16:42
  • Ah, gotcha, sorry since they were both showing directory listings I was confused.
    – terdon
    Dec 12, 2012 at 16:55

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Based on the images you provide, it looks like emacs is using a dark grey background and light grey fonts while the terminal has a black background and white fonts. That might explain why the one looks brighter than the other. Try setting the same colors in both and see if they still appear significantly different. The difference in size is so small I can't be sure if its not just an illusion born of the different colors.

Another thing to check is the anti-aliasing settings of both.

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  • I've add some images, the emacs font size is different from any other software me here. Ignoring the colors, they are in different height.
    – Saddle Point
    Dec 12, 2012 at 16:57
  • @Ispinfx, so they are indeed. Make sure you don't have any font settings anywhere else (e.g. ~/.emacs), maybe there are multiple definitions and emasc is following one of the others.
    – terdon
    Dec 12, 2012 at 17:02
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    I am sure of it since I've tested it in emacs -q
    – Saddle Point
    Dec 12, 2012 at 17:04
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It seems that there is a bug in Emacs Xft font driver as described here.

You can workaround it with font setting in .Xresources file for Emacs:

Emacs24.font: Monospace-10:pixelsize=14

For changes to take effect you need to either restart X server or run xrdb -merge .Xresources and restart Emacs.

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  • Can you please provide the path for .Xresources file for emacs?
    – Prasanna
    Sep 9, 2016 at 20:29
  • Alternatively, you can do emacs -fn Monospace-10:pixelsize=14 (tested in emacs 26.x) I actually like the way the font displays in emacs, and have been trying to get my terminals to display the same way, rather than vice versa.
    – Dan Halbert
    Mar 23, 2020 at 19:49

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